National League South Pre-Season Analysis
This may be the most competitive division in our league. All four franchises have won the division in the last four years. The run differential last year between the division winner and the other teams was 63 runs. Whether that was an injury, a breakout bat, or a young pitcher on the rise; there wasn't much to separate these teams. this season should be no different.
El Paso franchise owner bwb53 46 season in this league 3,828 wins
The Marty Robins are in a transition between a robust power hitting team lead by Louis Bowker, who hit 49 home runs last year, and a young pitching staff. The power doesn't come from just Bowker, Carson Belliveau,Tuck Forrest and Andre Evans all crushed more than 29 homers last season. The young pitchers are lead by Clyde Dickerson, Alex Ashley, Melvin Richardson, and Garrett Holliday.
The Robins have over 30 million to spend in free agency and are ready to compete in this division.
St. Louis franchise owner usibjc 17 season in this league 1,456 wins
A minus 41 run differential shouldn't be hard the Kaisers to over come this season.
A power house run scoring machine with a young core of Moe Ledsma, Julio Cepedes, Jason Williams and Paco Ayala, augmented by veterans Al Floriman and Barry Purcell should score more than enough runs to cover the run differential.
A rotation of Lopez, Loux, Palmiero, Stack and Herrera stands firm in the new season. The question in St Louis is whether the 20 plus million, to spend in free agency, allows for the shut down bull pen that leads to a pennent.
Charlotte franchise owner trapapoodle at least 11 season in this league at least 881 wins
The Trapper has won more than two franchises in this league. After three teams I figured it was better if he confessed to how many different franchises and seasons he played in this league. Once I have the information I will be more than happy to publish the number of wins he has. Obviously we are a stronger league with a guy who is willing to come and pick up difficult franchises. KUDOS TO THE TRAPPER.
This season the Trapper seems to be relying on his pitching staff. Slim Stewart, Pat Carter, Randy Johnson and Aneury Benitez will lead a pitching staff that closer Javier Alvarez will save. The hitters will be led by Faustino Gonzalez, Bebe Wong, Noe DeLeon and Ted Korecky and reinforced in the field by gold glove short stop Jesse Hammond.
Memphis franchise owner kblack2778 one season in this league 87 wins
The most improbable of seasons. An 18 run differential led to a division championship. A 38 run change, from season 45 to season 46, was the difference between second and first place.
Memphis seems more than happy to be led by several young studs. Royce Howell, Clyde Amaya, Marcus Roth and Brian Knapp will lead a lineup lookin g to crush pitching staffs.
Mark O'Connor and Rich Mateo will lead a rotation backed by several shut down relievers.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Time to Vote on the Hall of Fame
I'm the guy everyone hates this time of the season. I vote but not very often for 5 guys. I believe the only reason the baseball hall of fame is that it is exclusive. The football hall of fame adds 7 people a year regardless of the talent pool. So I tend to be very picky with voting.
I did a quick check of the players inducted in our Hall of Fame and thought I'd post the little that I took notes on. We have no shortstops in the Hall of Fame and only one centerfielder. This is probably that as players get older they transition out of key defensive positions into corner positions or the DH.
The worst hitter by average is Edgardo Jacquez .260. He did hit 602 homers, with a .578 slugging average. There are so many things to judge hitters by I thought I would leave it at Jacquez.
Among the pitchers the people creating the floor achievement were:
Fewest Wins for a starter was 159 by Bosco Martin. He had an ERA of 3.13.
Fewest saves for a reliever was 527 by Terry Schulte. He had an ERA of 2.91
Worst ERA was3.85 by Rigo Delgado. He had 312 wins.
Anyway happy voting!!
I'm the guy everyone hates this time of the season. I vote but not very often for 5 guys. I believe the only reason the baseball hall of fame is that it is exclusive. The football hall of fame adds 7 people a year regardless of the talent pool. So I tend to be very picky with voting.
I did a quick check of the players inducted in our Hall of Fame and thought I'd post the little that I took notes on. We have no shortstops in the Hall of Fame and only one centerfielder. This is probably that as players get older they transition out of key defensive positions into corner positions or the DH.
The worst hitter by average is Edgardo Jacquez .260. He did hit 602 homers, with a .578 slugging average. There are so many things to judge hitters by I thought I would leave it at Jacquez.
Among the pitchers the people creating the floor achievement were:
Fewest Wins for a starter was 159 by Bosco Martin. He had an ERA of 3.13.
Fewest saves for a reliever was 527 by Terry Schulte. He had an ERA of 2.91
Worst ERA was3.85 by Rigo Delgado. He had 312 wins.
Anyway happy voting!!
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
National League West Preseason Analysts
I'm starting the preseason blog with the National League West to honor that division for having the winner of the World Series. Also in full disclosure mode the Albuquerque franchise is run by my son. I will try to use the same standards that I use for all franchises when blogging, but you have a right to know that both Honolulu and Albuquerque have a hook with the blogger.
Vancouver franchise owner: picc18 39 seasons in this league 2,712 wins
picc has moved the Oklahoma City franchise to Vancouver. Last season OKCity had over a minus 100 run differential. The situation isn't really that bad as the team promoted several rookies to the majors and a couple of established guys had down seasons. Both the veterans and the now second year players should have better seasons in 47.
The pitching staff is headed by Rashun Pearson who had a 2.34 ERA in 161 innings last year. Javier Flores had 37 save opportunities last year and converted on 36. WOW!
The bats will be better with Bronson Cassevah and Cy Eaton entering their second year. Marc Cone stole 37 bases while having a down year, and is expected to bounce back. Socks Gross is another player who is expected to pick up more hits after a tough season 46.
The really good news in Vancouver is a huge amount of payroll flexibility. Less than 45 million is committed to returning players. Last year's payroll was budgeted at 106 million. A young core group with lots of dollars to bring in free agents!
Las Vegas franchise owner: pimpbotlove 20 seasons in this league 1,976 wins
Well it had to happen; after winning the division for 19 consecutive years the Galaxy finally saw their star dim. Vegas also had over a minus 100 run differential. However the rebuild is already happening. The Vegas double-A team won 107, high-A won 93, low-A won 72, and the rookie league team won 42.
Veteran Kike Guzman will anchor the rotation showing the ropes to future ace Terrance Durrington. The field players will be led by future gold glover Enrique Guerrero and left fielder Dude Haren.
The good news for pimpbotlove and bad news for the rest of us, only 19.7 million is committed in salaries for this season.
Albuquerque franchise owner: danxmcgraw 17 seasons in the league 1,178 wins
The Dukes had a negative 32 run differential in season 46; an improvement of 109 runs from season 45.
The improvements were from a lot pf players; pitchers: Ralph Collier, Alvin Hall, Marwin Arroyo and Braulio Vega. Two hitters that had good years were Tito Maxwell and Jairo Sanchez. With a bounce back year from Stolmy Castro things should look bright in Albuquerque.
Albuquerque has 57.9 million committed in salaries for the season.
Seattle franchise owner: jc44* 5 seasons in the league 362 wins
A most improbable season 46 for this franchise. After going 82-80 in the regular season with a run differential of positive 66; the franchise went 14-7 in the playoffs, winning the World Series.
Seattle had an incredibly young roster. The offense was led by Alex Martinez and Luigi Cruz who both scored 90 runs and drove in 85.Tripp Davis, Giovany Diaz and Jamie Wang each chipped in 20 or more home runs. All five of these player are 27 or younger. The top six starting pitchers and the three relievers with the most saves from season 46 will be back for this season .
With all those players being young and cheap, Seattle has only 36.2 million committed in salaries for this season.
I'm starting the preseason blog with the National League West to honor that division for having the winner of the World Series. Also in full disclosure mode the Albuquerque franchise is run by my son. I will try to use the same standards that I use for all franchises when blogging, but you have a right to know that both Honolulu and Albuquerque have a hook with the blogger.
Vancouver franchise owner: picc18 39 seasons in this league 2,712 wins
picc has moved the Oklahoma City franchise to Vancouver. Last season OKCity had over a minus 100 run differential. The situation isn't really that bad as the team promoted several rookies to the majors and a couple of established guys had down seasons. Both the veterans and the now second year players should have better seasons in 47.
The pitching staff is headed by Rashun Pearson who had a 2.34 ERA in 161 innings last year. Javier Flores had 37 save opportunities last year and converted on 36. WOW!
The bats will be better with Bronson Cassevah and Cy Eaton entering their second year. Marc Cone stole 37 bases while having a down year, and is expected to bounce back. Socks Gross is another player who is expected to pick up more hits after a tough season 46.
The really good news in Vancouver is a huge amount of payroll flexibility. Less than 45 million is committed to returning players. Last year's payroll was budgeted at 106 million. A young core group with lots of dollars to bring in free agents!
Las Vegas franchise owner: pimpbotlove 20 seasons in this league 1,976 wins
Well it had to happen; after winning the division for 19 consecutive years the Galaxy finally saw their star dim. Vegas also had over a minus 100 run differential. However the rebuild is already happening. The Vegas double-A team won 107, high-A won 93, low-A won 72, and the rookie league team won 42.
Veteran Kike Guzman will anchor the rotation showing the ropes to future ace Terrance Durrington. The field players will be led by future gold glover Enrique Guerrero and left fielder Dude Haren.
The good news for pimpbotlove and bad news for the rest of us, only 19.7 million is committed in salaries for this season.
Albuquerque franchise owner: danxmcgraw 17 seasons in the league 1,178 wins
The Dukes had a negative 32 run differential in season 46; an improvement of 109 runs from season 45.
The improvements were from a lot pf players; pitchers: Ralph Collier, Alvin Hall, Marwin Arroyo and Braulio Vega. Two hitters that had good years were Tito Maxwell and Jairo Sanchez. With a bounce back year from Stolmy Castro things should look bright in Albuquerque.
Albuquerque has 57.9 million committed in salaries for the season.
Seattle franchise owner: jc44* 5 seasons in the league 362 wins
A most improbable season 46 for this franchise. After going 82-80 in the regular season with a run differential of positive 66; the franchise went 14-7 in the playoffs, winning the World Series.
Seattle had an incredibly young roster. The offense was led by Alex Martinez and Luigi Cruz who both scored 90 runs and drove in 85.Tripp Davis, Giovany Diaz and Jamie Wang each chipped in 20 or more home runs. All five of these player are 27 or younger. The top six starting pitchers and the three relievers with the most saves from season 46 will be back for this season .
With all those players being young and cheap, Seattle has only 36.2 million committed in salaries for this season.
PRE-SEASON DIVISION EVALUATIONS ARE COMING
I was looking to write something interesting for the upcoming season. It occurred to me in the last two seasons we have had 14 teams score 100 more runs than their pitching staff gave up. All but one of these teams made the playoffs. So if you can't score more than 100 runs than you give up you only have a 19% chance of making the playoffs.
I'm pretty sure that any angle I would write about will leave some people high and dry. I don't want to offend anyone but I have to start somewhere. I also hope to cover to the minor leagues before the season starts. How I evaluate the minors will be subjective in that we all have different scouts and we all set our budgets differently for professional scouting.
I was looking to write something interesting for the upcoming season. It occurred to me in the last two seasons we have had 14 teams score 100 more runs than their pitching staff gave up. All but one of these teams made the playoffs. So if you can't score more than 100 runs than you give up you only have a 19% chance of making the playoffs.
I'm pretty sure that any angle I would write about will leave some people high and dry. I don't want to offend anyone but I have to start somewhere. I also hope to cover to the minor leagues before the season starts. How I evaluate the minors will be subjective in that we all have different scouts and we all set our budgets differently for professional scouting.
New Blog-New Awards PART TWO (By Breeolad, Postseason 46)
The Dean Comeback Player of the Year, is awarded to:
Yunesky De Los Santos of the Toronto Shamrocks!
In season 45 De Los Santos was on the 60 day disabled list with a Forearm, stress fracture. In season 45 he won 9 games in 21 starts with a 2.97 ERA. In season 46, healthy once again, he won 22 games in 34 starts with a 1.94 ERA.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
New Blog-New Awards, PART ONE (By Breeolad, Postseason 46)
One of the things I think is important for a league is strong franchises. It's hard to win a world series. It is also hard to run six teams and be competitive in all six leagues. So we will now have a Kobylesky Award for the owner who wins the most games in all six leagues in a season.
Last year four franchises won over 500 games, Tacoma, Toronto, Fargo and Santa Cruz.
With 561 wins, the Season 46 Kobylesky Award for best franchise goes to:
Renrog and the Santa Cruz Scream franchise!
Congratulations, Renrog. Well done.
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